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Section 2: HIV/AIDS
Sources
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Links
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By far the most useful source and the obvious stating point for work on HIV/AIDS is the web site of UNAIDS.
This is a very large site, with geographical and topical menus.
On the geographical menu there are links to each country. For each country there is an Epidemiological fact sheet, usually up-dated annually, and written to a standard format. You should get to know at least one of these country-specific statements well.
On the topical menu there is a long list of themes arranged alphabetically, from About UNAIDS to Y oung people. Again a click through each topic yields much information from many sources.
Centres for Disease Control, USAThe Centres for Disease Control, based in Atlanta Georgia, USA, is also a major source of materials, with a bias towards the medical aspects, but again with global coverage. Enter 'AIDS' into the key word box on the home page.
This is also an excellent HIV/AIDS specific site, using a range of UNAIDS and CDC data and commentaries.
National AIDS programmes
For information on individual national programmes in Asia and the Pacific region to tackle HIV/AIDS.
DFID
The Department for International Development of the UK (DFID) has a lot of material on HIV/AIDS within its web site. Go to 'search the web site' on the home page, and enter 'AIDS' in the key word box.
USAID
The International Development Agency of the United States (USAID) also has an even larger web site. Type ' AIDS', in the key word box on the home page you will have access to a large menu of topics, sources and materials. Included in this site are links to the large amount of material on AIDS globally produced by the US Bureau of the Census.
Health Protection Agency (HPA)
Each country normally has material on HIV/AIDS on its government or Ministry of Health website, or the website of its specialist agency. For the UK check out the Health Protection Agencies (HPA) website. From the 'home' menu click on 'infectious diseases', then from the 'topics A-Z' menu select 'browse by condition' a list of conditions will then appear - click on AIDS and you will have access to a variety of information.
NGOs e.g. Oxfam
Many non-government organisations (NGOs) describe their AIDS-related activities on their websites; e.g Oxfam - type ' AIDS ' in the search box.
SEARCH ENGINES
Visit the AIDS pages on the BBC site or search for AIDS on Google for many useful links and information sources.
Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside (2002) AIDS in the Twenty-first Century. Disease and Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan) .
The most comprehensive and thorough discussion of HIV/AIDS. This is written from a social science perspective, placing the disease in its global context, but with a strong emphasis on economic and social impacts and on Africa.
Journals
There are also several specialist journals on HIV/AIDS, the majority of them explicitly medical, but many of these have material on patterns and impacts.
The most important of these journals is AIDS. However, there are many articles on HIV/AIDS in general health journals, notably Social Science and Medicine.
